Agreed mac; the racial and ethnic implications made by the author are most unfortunate, entirely misplaced, and highly hypocritical.

Dr Chan (or Dr Cheah?) writes:

< … many of our government agencies have failed to acknowledge and effectively manage reverse racism (I would have said the effects of 'positive discrimination') against more established Australians. >

Eh? Positive discrimination? Does this mean that she is indeed a reverse racist?

Australian soil and productivity should remain in the complete control of Australians. There should be no foreign ownership.

Chinese immigration, as with all immigrants groups, should be kept very small, in line with a net zero immigration / population stabilisation policy.

Crikey, we have almost critically unsolvable problems now with the influence of big business on government and hence on our addiction to a totally antisustainable momentum, in terms of absurdly high population growth and maximised mining activity, to name just two things.

The LAST thing we need is for our government’s authority, and hence our ability to develop a sustainability strategy, to be progressively further eroded by ever-increasing vested interests from foreign ownership, the presence of more multinationals or foreign companies and larger cohorts of foreign people whose loyalties lie with their home nations and short-term vested interests, and not with Australia.

So Sorry Chan Cheah, but you will get total disagreement from me regarding the tenet of this article.

Ludwig,

Yes, indeed

I'm fed up with the "Only Caucasian people are racist" propaganda line and the easy assumption of the moral high ground by "representatives" of ethnic minorities in this country. The article is a transparent attempt to play the race card and the author has such a poor hand! Most Western societies have far better human rights records than their loud and hypocritical Asian critics. We could ask the Tibetans and Uighurs their opinions of the Han Chinese, for example.

I've recently gone 15 cyber rounds with "Big Australia" boosters, their position is that critics of high population growth are racists. They didn't present any economic or political evidence in support of high population growth rates, only ad hominem attacks.
Apparently the theory is, that no matter how flimsy the evidence is, play the race card and all the guilt-ridden liberals will run for cover.

Why are we having this debate? Is it because a few of us have finally woken up to the fact that the only thing we get from foreign investment, is an opportunity to line a few foreigners' pockets, or pay more for just about everything we need?
All my problems with mainland China, are linked to human rights, be it in the treatment of peaceful Falun Gong practitioners or Tibetans!
We should renegotiate our current FTA's so that reprecoscity is not only included, but mandatory.
This will finally set the scene for any future free trade agreements with anyone.
Moreover, given our massive resource base and very limited arable land, ownership ought to be limited to Australian citizens, new or old! And therefore, any proposed development subject to the same enforcible standards, as would apply, to any other Australian national!
We have to finally examine the fiction, that we actually need foreign capital; given, a virtually worthless letter of credit, allowed the capital required, to flow; and open up and develop the multi-trillion dollar iron ore resources, of the Pilbra.
Capital is flowing into this country now, like virtual rivers of gold!
And we need something else besides the ever enduring taxpayer, to support the interest the foreign investors expect/get.
We need to use this money train for as long as it runs, to open up our quite massive and untouched north eastern resources.
Only a fool living in a fools paradise would expect, we can continue to rely on middle east sourced energy resources for very much longer!
Sure lets sell everything they want to the Chinese; and buy whatever we need from them!
Just don't include the family silver or the farm!
Least we follow the Scots or the Irish; and history repeating itself, and become impoverished tenants eking out an existence on our own land yet again, as virtual slaves; to demonstrably arrogant and brutal, foreign owners?
Yes it is an emotive issue, particularly for those who get it and understand, we belong to the land, rather than visa versa!
Rhrosty.

Yes, I agree. This article is just a blatant example of asian racism and their underlying belief in their own superiority. Dr chan seems to feel and think that the whole of Australia should change to suit her own myopic vision that unfortunately does NOT include white people. The last thing this country needs is a flood of migrants and so called 'foreign investment' or 'globalisation'. Feel free to leave Australia, Dr Chan.

It's a bit rich to see crocodile tears about foreign ownership of australian soil when home grown, ie green, genocide is promoting the transfer.
Either walk the walk or get out of the way.

Just ask yourself who is selling the land ? Australians ! Don't blame the buyer for buying, blame the seller for selling.
Australians would sell to the Taliban if they offered more money. Australia is not for sale, Australians are.